by Ken Giffin | Sep 9, 2025 | career advice, corporate behavior, personal growth, self-improvement
I have run into many talented and accomplished people in the workplace who did not have strong self-awareness. In most cases, their issues of handling conflict or challenging office incidents were more destructive than productive and could have yielded much better...
by Ken Giffin | Aug 12, 2025 | career advice, corporate behavior, self-improvement, skills development
I’m going to start this blog post with my own cautionary tale of poor storytelling while interviewing for my first job many years ago. I was fortunate that the business school from my undergraduate days (Indiana University) had a strong recruiting organization that...
by Ken Giffin | Jan 14, 2025 | personal growth, self-improvement, skills development
I had a mindset at the beginning of my career that development was something provided for you as a reward for hard work. You focused on your current position and putting in the work, and then (and only then) would development come to you in the form of promotion...
by Ken Giffin | Oct 15, 2024 | presentations / presenting, self-improvement, skills development
We recently interacted with a client who was nervous about an upcoming in-person presentation. What was unique about the scenario was that this person was not a novice when it comes to presentations — but they felt like a novice because of the lack of in-person...
by Ken Giffin | Mar 27, 2024 | personal growth, self-improvement, skills development
Those who know Ken well, know that he has a passion for on-going learning. He distinctly remembers a scenario more than 20 years ago that solidified this stance. He was at a company that offered all employees a $1,500 training and learning investment each year which...
by Ken Giffin | Jan 12, 2023 | productivity, self-improvement
2023 is starting out like a mad dash. If you are anything like us, then you are flooded with new project ideas, a sea of new emails, and a big question of how this will all be completed. Two key things however, might be missing for you right now: Priority and Focus So...
